Over 12,000 fighters from at least 81 countries have joined the civil war in Syria, and the numbers continue to grow. Around 2,500 are from Western countries, including most members of the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There are also several hundred from Russia. But…
This document outlines the discussions held during the practitioner workshop on education and CVE held in coordination with the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Abu Dhabi, May 2014.
Founded in the wake of the 7/7 attacks on London, Radical Middle Way aims to promote more open, responsible and cohesive communities. Designed to articular a moderate, mainstream understanding of religion, faith and politics, the organisation engages hard-to-reach groups – especially young Muslims – providing them with faith-inspired guidance and…
Online extremism and the role the Internet plays in the radicalisation process is currently being debated and discussed by journalists, academics, technologists and government officials alike. This report seeks to demystify this area and expose the manner in which online tools are being used by Islamist extremist organisations and individuals…
The Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI) was founded in 2003 as an independent non-governmental organisation in Lithuania to support human rights efforts in the Baltic region, focused on Lithuania. Since 2008, the HRMI has used domestic and international courts to protect against discrimination., The Human Rights Monitoring Institute also works…
This document summarizes the discussions that took place during the “Roles of Families and Communities in Strengthening Community Resilience against Violent Extremism” roundtable convened in partnership with the Global Center on Cooperative Security in Abu Dhabi, December 2013.
From 1990-2010 ecoterrorist attacks by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF) created an anomaly in the U.S. with millions of dollars in property destruction. Interestingly, in a post 9/11 era, the FBI warns that the number one threat to U.S. national security is not religious terrorism,…
The third bi-annual report on violent extremisn in Finland has been published as part of the Ministry of Interior’s National Action Plan for Preventing Extremism., This report focuses in on demonstration held on 6 December 2013, the Finnish Independence Day, providing a thematic review on the acts of violence and…
With regard to upcoming milestones, including the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda and the 10th anniversary of the Strategy’s adoption in 2016, this document offers a series of recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of the UN counterterrorism program. These include:
Terrorism is a complex issue and various researchers have identified numerous causes and conditions that generate or are capable of generating terrorism. In the last decade, terrorist attacks claimed 36,495 lives and injured 27,985 people in Pakistan as a result of 3,482 bomb blasts and 281 suicide attacks. The aim…
Formers Anonymous hope to build a network of self-led and self-contained support and recovery groups in order to create a compassionate network of individuals that can help each other to address common problems pertaining to ‘street life’ and the criminal actions that often result from this lifestyle.
